IVAN FRANKO'S POETRY "MOTHER NATURE!..." AS AN INVARIANT OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Abstract

Scientific poetry is now asserted as the form of a poetic work in which the thought reveals itself as an esthetic integrity of rational and irrational initials, and the scientific component, in turn, determines the substance of the verse and thenceforth the trend of a lyrical theme development. Ukrainian scientific poetry, dating back to Ancient Rus period, obtained the new forms and sense at the end of the 19^th century – firstly, in Ivan Franko's heritage. The author of this article made an attempt to comprehend the formal and substantial characteristics of I. Franko's poem 'Mamo- pryrodo!..' ('You Mother Nature!..') that belongs to the cycle 'In the Plain Air': particularly, its composition and language are defined as the precedents to create the novelty paradigm of the scientific research. In fact, the stanza division of the poem appears to be correspondent to the novelty structure of any scientific article (including such parts as Setting of the Problem, Analysis of the Latest Researches and Publications, Purposes of the Work, Results and Discussions, Conclusions and Recommendations). Prosodic elements (first of all, the free verse form and the shifts in the rhythm of the speaker's narration) are hence confirmed as the factors of establishment of a creative contact with a recipient, the stimuli to the independent cognition of the reality from the standpoint of terms borrowed from various sciences. Sensory images, initially the essential source of the information about the environment, scientific terminology as one of the ways to comprehend the world, and philosophical notions as the results of cognition process are all implemented into free- verse form – condensed and otherwise open, in which the suggestive and artistic potential of words gets realized due to the internal rhythm of the protagonist's speech.